ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 vs NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5300

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 and NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5300 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

ATI Mobility Radeon 9700

NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5300

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 9700

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 3 month(s) later
Around 64% higher core clock speed: 450 MHz vs 275 MHz
Around 64% higher texture fill rate: 1.8 GTexel / s vs 1.1 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 130 nm vs 150 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 256 MB vs 64 MB
Around 10% higher memory clock speed: 550 MHz vs 500 MHz
2.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 27 vs 13

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 June 2004 vs 1 March 2003
Core clock speed	450 MHz vs 275 MHz
Texture fill rate	1.8 GTexel / s vs 1.1 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	256 MB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	550 MHz vs 500 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	27 vs 13

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5300

Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 159 vs 158

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	159 vs 158

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon 9700
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5300

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

158

159

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon 9700	NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5300
PassMark - G3D Mark	27	13
PassMark - G2D Mark	158	159

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon 9700	NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5300
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 9	Rankine
Code name	M11	NV34 A1
Launch date	1 June 2004	1 March 2003
Place in performance rating	1097	1098
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	450 MHz
Core clock speed	450 MHz	275 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	4
Texture fill rate	1.8 GTexel / s	1.1 GTexel / s
Transistor count	76 million	45 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 8x	AGP 8x
Laptop size	medium sized
API support
DirectX	9.0	9.0a
OpenGL	2.0	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	8.8 GB / s	8 GB / s
Memory bus width	275 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	550 MHz	500 MHz
Memory type	128 / 64	DDR
Shared memory	0